Found a nice Mexican piece in the wild

Jinx86

Went to my regular B&M today. They had a large group of world coins they were sending off to melt and want to know if I wanted any at melt. I dug through found quite a few nice pieces and picked out anything I didnt see very often or anything I couldnt identify off the top of my head, total of 10 Oz's which with todays price wasnt bad. There was many unc coins from 1890-1950 I picked out even common date 8 reales.

This one piece I thought was a contempary conterfiet thats is why I bought it. Let me know what you think and if Im right with my findings.

bronzemat

Nice, very cool!

coinkat

keep in mind the quality of these are not great to begin with

tewcd

I've seen slabbed genuine examples that look worse. Know anyone with a mass spectrometer? If the gold content is accurate, I'd say its real.

Jinx86

Is this a commonly faked type or is it a readily availible piece. There are one or two on ebay currently with low auction prices(for now).

Also is Krause any where close on value?

coinnerd

It looks like you have KM 672 Taxco not KM 642 Guerrero. These are very crude to start with and I see nothing that leads me to think it is fake. KM prices are low
IMO but it is a very thin market. Nice find for melt. It has .3g of gold. About $15 I think.

Here is my 1814 Guerrero KM 641 so you can compare some of the design elements.

Jinx86

Ok I see it, hard to tell the difference between 672-673-674...the KM # arent in order in the book either. What are the 672a-b-c?

Pokermandude

Neat find! Seems like a strange alloy for a coin to have so little gold in it.

coinnerd

KM 672a is made of brass, b lead and c copper instead of the gold silver alloy of KM 672

Jinx86

Ill have to keep my eyes out for more finds like this, some of these have quite large dollar signs to go with them. My Mexican type set its gettin a bit full though. The dansco doesnt quite cut it.